It’s Offical – Ping Pong and Fooseball Table

Check out what we got in our office this last month. Awesome!

Agile Development at John Deere – Come Join Us

Tomorrow’s advances in planting and harvesting operations, crop yield management, vehicle guidance and farm enterprise data management will be largely driven by Deere’s ability to rapidly develop and deploy new intellectual property, much of which will be embodied in software. In enterprise settings such as Amazon, Google, Boeing and others, agile and lean software development [...]

The Train Continues to Roll

Today marks our 30th day of doing large scale agile development at John Deere ISG. For me it is hard to believe how well things are working. I remember the week before we rolled out agile we were having hard discussions about whether this was the right time to make the change with a critical [...]

Taking Agile to the next Level

Over the last 6 months I have been ratcheting up my communication on the benefits and success of Agile within my organization. We have been slowly working on it since November, but haven’t had much traction. In late May I decide to grab a hold of the steering wheel and push on the Agile gas. [...]

(Drum roll) The Results are in!

“If you were king for the day, would you continue to use Scrum?” 100% said YES!